International Center for Law and Religion Studies Communication Update

Dear Friends,

Autumn 2009 signals for the International Center for Law and Religion Studies the beginning of a new era in communication with our colleagues around the world. This year, for the first time, we offered a live stream of the opening addresses of our Annual International Law and Religion Symposium.  We also announce improvements in our written communication.  For more than a year the Center has been updating and modernizing its websites and developing a new proprietary software that permits electronic newsletters to be created from information already posted to any of our four sites. With these new and expanding capabilities available to us, we wish to…

W. Cole Durham Receives International First Freedom Award

W. Cole Durham, Jr., Director of ICLRS and Susa Young Gates Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, traveled to Virginia on January 15, 2009, to accept the prestigious International First Freedom Award. Each year, the Richmond-based First Freedom Center selects one recipient for each of three awards: the International First Freedom Award, the National First Freedom Award, and the Virginia First Freedom Award. These awards are intended to recognize the recipients’ work in advancing the freedom of conscience and belief, and basic human rights for people from all faiths, cultures, and traditions. Former recipients of the First Freedom awards include then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine…